MS-500T00 - Microsoft 365 Security Administration (MS-500T00)

1. User and Group Management
   This lesson explains how to manage user accounts and groups in Microsoft 365. It introduces you to the Zero Trust concept as well as authentication. The lesson sets the foundation for the remainder of the course.
   1. Identity and Access Management concepts
   2. The Zero Trust model
   3. Plan your identity and authentication solution
   4. User accounts and roles
   5. Password Management
   6. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Create and manage user accounts.
      • Describe and use Microsoft 365 admin roles.
      • Plan for password policies and authentication.
      • Describe the concepts of Zero Trust security.
      • Explain the Zero Trust model.
2. Identity Synchronization and Protection
   This lesson explains concepts related to synchronizing identities for Microsoft 365. Specifically, it focuses on Azure AD Connect and managing directory synchronization to ensure the right people are connecting to your Microsoft 365 system.
   1. Plan directory synchronization
   2. Configure and manage synchronized identities
   3. Azure AD Identity Protection
   4. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Explain directory synchronization.
      • Plan directory synchronization.
      • Describe and use Azure AD Connect.
      • Configure Azure AD Connect Prerequisites.
      • Manage users and groups with directory synchronization.
      • Describe Active Directory federation.
      • Enable Azure Identity Protection
3. Identity and Access Management
   This lesson explains conditional access for Microsoft 365 and how it can be used to control access to resources in your organization. The lesson also explains Role Based Access Control (RBAC) and solutions for external access. We discuss identity governance as a concept and its components.
   1. Application Management
   2. Identity Governance
   3. Manage device access
   4. Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
   5. Solutions for external access
   6. Privileged Identity Management
   7. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Describe the concept of conditional access.
      • Describe and use conditional access policies.
      • Plan for device compliance.
      • Configure conditional users and groups.
      • Configure role based access control
      • Describe the concepts of identity governance
      • Configure and use Privileged Identity Management
4. Security in Microsoft 365
   This lesson explains the various cyber-attack threats that exist. It then introduces you to the Microsoft solutions used to mitigate those threats. The lesson finishes with an explanation of Microsoft Secure Score and how it can be used to evaluate and report your organizations security posture.
   1. Threat vectors and data breaches
   2. Security strategy and principles
   3. Microsoft security solutions
   4. Secure Score
   5. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Describe several techniques attackers use to compromise user accounts through email.
      • Describe techniques attackers use to gain control over resources.
      • List the types of threats that can be avoided by using EOP and Microsoft Defender for Office 365.
      • Describe the benefits of Secure Score and what kind of services can be analyzed.
      • Describe how to use Secure Score to identify gaps in your current Microsoft 365 security posture.
5. Threat Protection
   This lesson explains the various threat protection technologies and services available for Microsoft 365. The lesson covers message protection through Exchange Online Protection, Microsoft Defender for Identity and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
   1. Exchange Online Protection (EOP)
   2. Microsoft Defender for Office 365
   3. Manage Safe Attachments
   4. Manage Safe Links
   5. Microsoft Defender for Identity
   6. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
   7. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Describe the anti-malware pipeline as email is analyzed by Exchange Online Protection.
      • Describe how Safe Attachments is used to block zero-day malware in email attachments and documents.
      • Describe how Safe Links protect users from malicious URLs embedded in email and documents that point
      • Configure Microsoft Defender for Identity.
      • Configure Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
6. Threat Management
   This lesson explains Microsoft Threat Management which provides you with the tools to evaluate and address cyber threats and formulate responses. You will learn how to use the Security dashboard and Azure Sentinel for Microsoft 365.
   1. Security dashboard
   2. Threat investigation and response
   3. Azure Sentinel
   4. Advanced Threat Analytics
   5. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Describe how Threat Explorer can be used to investigate threats and help to protect your tenant.
      • Describe how the Security Dashboard gives C-level executives insight into top risks and trends.
      • Describe what Advanced Thread Analytics (ATA) is and what requirements are needed to deploy it.
      • Configure Advanced Threat Analytics.
      • Use the attack simulator in Microsoft 365.
      • Describe how Azure Sentinel can used for Microsoft 365.
7. Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
   This lesson focuses on cloud application security in Microsoft 365. The lesson will explain cloud discovery, app connectors, policies, and alerts. You will learn how these features work to secure you cloud applications.
   1. Deploy Defender for Cloud Apps
   2. Use cloud application security information
   3. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Describe Defender for Cloud Apps.
      • Explain how to deploy Defender for Cloud Apps.
      • Control your Cloud Apps with Policies.
      • Use the Cloud App Catalog.
      • Use the Cloud Discovery dashboard.
      • Manage cloud app permissions.
8. Mobility
   This lesson focuses on securing mobile devices and applications. You will learn about Mobile Device Management and how it works with Microsoft Intune. You will also learn about how Intune and Azure AD can be used to secure mobile applications.
   1. Mobile Application Management (MAM)
   2. Mobile Device Management (MDM)
   3. Deploy mobile device services
   4. Enroll devices to Mobile Device Management
   5. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Describe mobile application considerations.
      • Manage devices with MDM.
      • Configure Domains for MDM.
      • Manage Device Security Policies.
      • Enroll devices to MDM.
      • Configure a Device Enrollment Manager Role.
9. Information Protection and Governance
   This lesson focuses on data loss prevention in Microsoft 365. You will learn about how to create policies, edit rules, and customize user notifications to protect your data.
   1. Information protection concepts
   2. Governance and Records Management
   3. Sensitivity labels
   4. Archiving in Microsoft 365
   5. Retention in Microsoft 365
   6. Retention policies in the Microsoft 365 Compliance Center
   7. Archiving and retention in Exchange
   8. In-place records management in SharePoint
   9. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Configure sensitivity labels.
      • Configure archiving and retention in Microsoft 365.
      • Plan and configure Records Management
10. Rights Management and Encryption
    This lesson explains information rights management in Exchange and SharePoint. The lesson also describes encryption technologies used to secure messages.
    1. Information Rights Management (IRM)
    2. Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (S-MIME)
    3. Office 365 Message Encryption
    4. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
       • Describe the various Microsoft 365 Encryption Options.
       • Describe the use of S/MIME.
       • Describe and enable Office 365 Message Encryption.
11. Data Loss Prevention
    This lesson focuses on data loss prevention in Microsoft 365. You will learn about how to create policies, edit rules, and customize user notifications to protect your data.
    1. Data loss prevention fundamentals
    2. Create a DLP policy
    3. Customize a DLP policy
    4. Create a DLP policy to protect documents
    5. Policy tips
    6. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
       • Describe Data Loss Prevention (DLP).
       • Use policy templates to implement DLP policies for commonly used information.
       • Configure the correct rules for protecting content.
       • Describe how to modify existing rules of DLP policies.
       • Configure the user override option to a DLP rule.
       • Explain how SharePoint Online creates crawled properties from documents.
12. Compliance Management
    This lesson explains the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. It discusses the components of compliance score.
    1. Compliance portal
    2. Microsoft Priva Privacy Risk Management
    3. Microsoft Priva Subject Rights Requests
    4. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
       • Describe the Microsoft Purview compliance portal and how to access it.
       • Describe the purpose and function of Compliance Score.
       • Explain how assessments are used to formulate compliance scores.
       • Create and manage risk management policies
       • Investigate and remediate risk alerts
       • Create and manage Subject Rights Requests
       • Estimate and retrieve subject data
13. Insider Risk Management
    This lesson focuses on insider risk related functionality within Microsoft 365. It covers not only Insider Risk Management in the compliance center but also information barriers and privileged access management as well.
    1. Insider Risk
    2. Privileged Access
    3. Information barriers
    4. Building ethical walls in Exchange Online
    5. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
       • Explain and configure Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365.
       • Configure and approve privileged access requests for global administrators.
       • Configure and use information barriers to conform to organizational regulations.
       • Build ethical walls in Exchange Online
       • Configure Customer Lockbox
14. Discover and Respond
    This lesson focuses on content search and investigations. The lesson covers how to use eDiscovery to conduct advanced investigations of Microsoft 365 data. It also covers audit logs and discusses GDPR data subject requests.
    1. Content Search
    2. Audit Log Investigations
    3. Advanced eDiscovery
    4. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
       • Conduct content searches in Microsoft 365
       • Perform and audit log investigation.
       • Configure Microsoft 365 for audit logging.
       • Use Advanced eDiscovery

Course Labs

1. Initialize your tenant - users and groups
2. Password management
3. Implement Identity Synchronization
4. Use Conditional Access to enable MFA
5. Configure Privileged Identity Management
6. Use Microsoft Secure Score
7. Manage Microsoft 365 Security Services
8. Using Attack Simulator
9. Device Management
10. Archiving and Retention
11. Configure Office 365 Message Encryption
12. Implement Data Loss Prevention policies
13. Privileged Access Management
14. Manage Search and Investigation